1) May family members (wives, children, etc.) accompany the visiting delegation? It is not recommended that visiting delegations bring family members, since a World Bank SSKE is an official mission fo...

WASHINGTON D.C., July 17, 2015 - Right now, there are not enough incentives for the managers of farms, or wastewater treatment plants, or the owners of landfills in developing countries, to capture th...

CONTEXTWhat are GVCs? • Companies used to make things primarily in one country. That has all changed. Today, a single finished product often results from manufacturing and assembly in multiple countri...

WBG and China also agree on AIIB collaboration BEIJING, July 16, 2015— World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today praised China for its growing role in global development in meetings with Premier L...

16-year-old Ilbija Sadiki is a third year student at a public vocational school in Skopje, the capital of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. His family is low-income, so having a bit of extra ...

The Role of Deeper and More Diversified Financial Sector KIGALI, July 15, 2015 – In the new Rwanda Economic Update (REU) launched today, the World Bank projects an economic growth rate of 7.4% in 2015...

KIGALI, July 15, 2015 – A strong, diversified financial sector can help the government gradually transition from aid, finance its development and benefit a larger group of Rwandans, according to a new...

The World Bank is currently evaluating the impacts of the proposed Isimba Hydropower Project in Uganda in line with the 2007 Indemnity Agreement signed between the Government of Uganda and the World B...

BEIJING, July 14, 2015 - World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim will visit China July 15-17 to expand cooperation in areas including development financing and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank...

Can modern Tunisia learn from the Romans? Two thousand years ago, as part of a trans-North Africa highway, the Romans built a road that linked ports on the Mediterranean coast of what’s now Tunisia. F...

Distinguished delegates. I’m honored to be here with you today. I appreciated the thoughtful remarks from my friend Prime Minister Hailemariam, and I welcome his invitation to add a World Bank Group p...

Development policy is due for a redesign based on a more realistic understanding of how human beings behave Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a grand, ambitious experiment in behaviour change. Achieving a Clea...